The folks that live there feel safe surrounded by millions of people living
elbow to elbow and most probably haven't and never will fly in a small plane
and experience the joy that we do.

Ah, no, we don't live elbow to elbow. In fact, much of the western
part of the ADIZ, between Leesburg and 30 nm west of IAD is fairly
sparcely populated.

And, yes, there are GA pilots inside the ADIZ.

For some reason, I had assumed (wrongly, I guess), that most of the
people involved in this discussion where also in ADIZ and were thus
annoyed by this proposal.